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Back in December 'Winterfest' was launched on The Emporium of Rogue Dreams Facebook page. Build and paint an Eldar single model, unit or vehicle by 12th January. The Command Group category was my favourite category from the early 1990s Golden Demon awards. I loved seeing a tight group of four themed models, usually comprised of a selection of commanders, leaders, champions or musicians plus a standard bearer:David Knowles Squat Command …

Photograph by James Kocher. Photography Contest, Honorable Mention. Caligo teucer – owl butterfly, Bayer Insectarium, St. Louis Zoo, January, 2023. Mr. Kocher writes, "An example of mimicry coloration. Butterfly has recently emerged from a chrysalis partially composed of enrolled leaf (to right of the body)." See also: eyespot.

I can't be the only one teaching online statistics this Spring. Last fall, I refreshed ALL of my discussion boards for my online version of Psychological Statistics. I haven't done so since 2020, and my students responded well to my new discussion topics, all of which are centered in statistical literacy and improving problem-solving with data.My first one is based on this old blog post about how residents of Houston …

Starring Hannah John-Kamen, Douglas Booth, Colm Meaney, Kristian Nairn, Chris Walley, Niamh Cusack and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell. Written by Jon Wright and Mark Stay. Directed by Jon Wright. Produced by Piers Tempest, Peter Touche and Lauren Cox. Tempo Productions/Ingenious Media/Rococo Films Poster Jamie and Maya Several months after they suffer a violent home invasion incident in their inner city London apartment, young couple Maya (John-Kamen) and Jamie (Booth) eagerly move to …

Tipping is a hot issue these days. How much should you tip staff in a restaurant or hotel, or even other types of situation? Should you even tip at all? For service staff tips are a vital source of income, supplementing what might be a very low standard wage. Tips are welcomed as a sign of having done a good job, and it’s nice to show your appreciation. Image from …

By David Tuller, DrPH In October, I spent 10 days traveling around Ireland and giving a talk called “Bad Science, Bad Medicine: How Flawed Biopsychosocial Studies on ME, Long Covid, etc Harm Patients.” (I wrote about the trip here.) I came as a guest of the Irish ME/CFS Association, which had previously arranged similar tours … Trial By Error: Video of October Talk in Ireland on How “Biopsychosocial” Research on …

On 2025-Jan-03, I delivered a talk doing an overview of the Cloudflare Developer Platform in my home-city, Nicosia, Cyprus 🇨🇾. Thanks to Parsectix, specifically Pavlos, for organising the event (LinkedIn Event), and to all the folks that joined. It was awesome to see some familiar faces in the audience.😅 The talk covers an overview of the Cloudflare Developer platform, core services, and how to gradually integrate it with your existing …

Submitted by Juan, who says: I send the new version of the Renfe-Madrid Cercanías network. It seems to me that it has improved quite a lot the previous version. This previous version had crossroads, angles, etc. I would like to know your opinion about this new map. Transit Maps says: What a massive improvement this over previous official versions! [See our reviews for the 2022 and 2013 versions – Cam] …

It’s starting to look a lot like Christmas… And I wanted to make a small box for my wife who does needle felting, to keep her needles organized. I had a small piece of ash gash lying around, and thought it could be utilized for something more noble than barbecuing bacon cheese sausages on the fire pan (as if that is not THE noble end for wood…). What was I …

I truly enjoyed this podcast episode with Icelandic president Halla Tómasdóttir. Halla joins Adam to discuss dealing with impostor syndrome, why leadership is worth the effort and how listening and asking questions can build trust with constituents and make you a stronger leader. The two also dig into the story behind Halla’s “scarf revolution,” Iceland’s history of solving problems with creativity and Halla’s approach to leading her campaign — and …

Chuck Eddy's fave single of 2024 - "The Spark" by Kabin Crew & Lisdoonvarna Crew, from Knocknaheeny, Cork.The entire post-98 quarter-century-long enshittification of drum + bass redeemed at a stroke. It was all worth it.Kids + Breaks reminded me of this inevitablyThe rapping though - as an example of Very White Rapping + high energy dance beat (the breaks are not very breaksy, more bouncy - ultra-linear NRG surge) makes …

Novelist Andrew Michael Hurley has published what is basically a thirteen story collection, centered around a fictional border town between Yorkshire and Lancashire called Barrowbeck. This provides a thin skein that connects the stories, and the hint that the setting is something rather more significant enters into only a few of the tales. The first is set in the distant past, while the final story is set in 2041 in …

“God is an experience,” an old man told me as he reached for another cookie. “Not a thing or a concept. God is an event.”I thought about this last night while I watched the snow come down, my nose pressed against the cold glass like a little kid—not judging or wanting, just watching. They’re calling it Winter Storm Blair. I’m not sure when we started christening snowstorms, but like everything …

This illusion (from the Chicago museum of illusions, and duplicated, I believe, in other similar museums in other cities) “almost” appears to give a tiling of \(\mathbf{R}^3\) by regular dodecahedra, which for a number of reasons is not possible. (It … Continue reading →

A 2018 piece for Stanford Live on Bowie's death and the art of the eulogy. The night that the news went out that David Bowie had died, I was just finishing a book in which he was the central figure. On January 10th 2016, I was literally on the last pages of my glam rock history Shock and Awe when Twitter told me that this towering pop figure had fallen. …